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This voluminous folder contains condolences from the general public to the Goodman family on the murder by the Ku Klux Klan of their son, Andrew, and two other civil rights workers during Freedom Summer. The letters arrived when the workers were missing, when their bodies were found, when the Goodmans appeared on television, when the various trials of the killers took place, and when the Goodmans wrote a book and magazine article about Andy. Not surprisingly, among the many letters are some from Freedom Summer volunteers and their relatives. Several others are from African Americans, often signed with a variation of "a Negro mother who cares." There's a birth announcement of a child given the first names of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, and a clipping called "Tribute to All Andy Goodmans."

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